Gaming Performance Comparison

Recommended System Requirements

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Ryzen 7 2700X

Xeon E5-2628L v2

In terms of overall gaming performance, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X is massively better than the Intel Xeon E5-2628L v2 when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.

The Ryzen 7 2700X was released over three years more recently than the Xeon E5-2628L v2, and so the Ryzen 7 2700X is likely to have far better levels of support, and will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Xeon E5-2628L v2 when running the latest games.

Both CPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings (assuming they are accompanied by equivalently powerful GPUs).

The Ryzen 7 2700X and the Xeon E5-2628L v2 both have 8 cores. Games are not yet able to harness this many cores, so it is probably excessive if you mean to just run the latest games; however, if you intend on running a server with this CPU, it would seem to be a decent choice.

Both the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X and the Intel Xeon E5-2628L v2 have the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 7 2700X and the Xeon E5-2628L v2 use hyperthreading. The Ryzen 7 2700X has 2 logical threads per physical core and the Xeon E5-2628L v2 has 2.

Multiple threads are useful for improving the performance of multi-threaded applications. Additional cores and their accompanying thread will always be beneficial for multi-threaded applications. Hyperthreading will be beneficial for applications optimized for it, but it may slow others down. For games, the number of threads is largely irrelevant, as long as you have at least 2 cores (preferably 4), and hyperthreading can sometimes even hit performance.

More important for gaming than the number of cores and threads is the clock rate. Problematically, unless the two CPUs are from the same family, this can only serve as a general guide and nothing like an exact comparison, because the clock cycles per instruction (CPI) will vary so much.

The Ryzen 7 2700X and Xeon E5-2628L v2 are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Ryzen 7 2700X has a 1.8 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the is superior.

Aside from the clock rate, the next-most important CPU features for PC game performance are L2 and L3 cache size. Faster than RAM, the more cache available, the more data that can be stored for lightning-fast retrieval. L1 Cache is not usually an issue anymore for gaming, with most high-end CPUs eking out about the same L1 performance, and L2 is more important than L3 - but L3 is still important if you want to reach the highest levels of performance. Bear in mind that although it is better to have a larger cache, the larger it is, the higher the latency, so a balance has to be struck.

The Ryzen 7 2700X has a 3840 KB bigger L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2628L v2, but on the other hand, it is the Xeon E5-2628L v2 that has a 4 MB bigger L3 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700X. In this case, the L2 size is probably what counts, so the Ryzen 7 2700X is likely superior in this area.

The maximum Thermal Design Power is the power in Watts that the CPU will consume in the worst case scenario. The lithography is the semiconductor manufacturing technology being used to create the CPU - the smaller this is, the more transistors that can be fit into the CPU, and the closer the connections. For both the lithography and the TDP, it is the lower the better, because a lower number means a lower amount of power is necessary to run the CPU, and consequently a lower amount of heat is produced.

The Xeon E5-2628L v2 has a 25 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Ryzen 7 2700X. However, the Ryzen 7 2700X was created with a 10 nm smaller manufacturing technology. Overall, by taking both into account, the Xeon E5-2628L v2 is likely the CPU with the lower heat production and power requirements, but there really isn't much in it.

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The AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-Core 3.7GHz is a high-end CPU based on the 12nm Zen+ microarchitecture.
It offers 8 physical cores (16 threads), initially clocked at 3.7GHz base clock and 4.3GHz boost with an unlocked multiplier for overclocking, and 16MB of L3 Cache.
Among its many features are Simultaneous Multithreading, Cool n Quiet, CoolCore Technology, Extended Frequency Range (XFX) 2.0, Pure Power and Precision Boost 2.0.
This CPU is likely to offer exceptional computational performance and will not be the bottleneck in any modern gaming PC. It will be able to play all modern games comfortably on high/ultra graphics performance without being a hindrance to the accompanying GPU.

The E5-2628L v2 is a high performance, 8-core server processor in the E5 v2 family of processors. It was launched by Intel in September 2013.
It is a low power CPU, with maximum TDP just 70 watts. It has a clock speed of 1.9GHz with turbo boost to 2.4GHz.